Larry Polansky

List of Compositions Selected, Annotated

4/6/21 Polansky, List of Compositions 4/6/21

2021 Selected Rounds: what is music? a recombinant, self-negating round for any # of singers, speakers, players / Claudio Calmens opina… (Claudio Calmens says…) Grand conjunction canon for Amy (piano and optional second instrument) Passacaglia for louise (in Gary’s memory), piano 2020 Selected Rounds: adjectival abuse (for David Mahler’s 76th) / Bayesian Logic / wear a mask/ herpetology / white throated sparrow’s changing song / filiality (on a phrase by Barbara Monk Feldman) / routine behavior (2 rounds for amy) / rhyme, no reason (for julie hanify’s birthday) / Octochordal Injunction / Happy Holidays! / deck-a-dance (for beals’ 10th birthday) / beautiful armenian luck from fresnoid seat belts (for Charles Amirkhanian’s birthday) ) / no longer (just) HRH! (a neotitular 6-part round in celebration of Sarah Lloyd, on the occasion of her being awarded the Order of Australia Medal) / gimme shelter (3 rounds on the coronavirus and on being stuck at home, and practicing the Bach Cello Suites) / double round for George Marsh and Jennifer

Wilsey, on the occasion of George’s 5417 birthday / contravirus conundrum / morning/absence (for dan) seven 2-part inventions (piano) chaconne (for amy) (piano) music for Amy and me (piano and guitar, or piano and another instrument)

2019 Selected Rounds: Octalpus / No Net! / for pete’s sake / Ucross Rounds (20) / shopping list / 1 tishri 5780 / one more song for amy, kate and Vanessa / Glockintood 2, solo glockenspiel, voice ;Mayn Rue Platz) (My Resting Place) (The Schneider Variations) for solo refretted guitar. 1994) רצפלץ מ׳׳וֹ new edition 2019 five songs for kate and vanessa I. higher II. corner cows III. to&fro/in&out IV. Courante V. jig. Violin, cello, piano. Premiered by Kate Stenberg, Vanessa Ruotolo, and Amy Beal, Center for New Music, San Francisco, 12/11/19 sulam), for trumpet and canonic and droning instruments, 12/19) (סולם) kaddish ladder canon

2018 יומ / (gematria) גימטריה (day four) ירביע ום / …Selected Rounds: beals’ lament: !8! (at 7) / not quite done yet לפיוי (day five, 2018) חמישי I-80 Rounds (9 rounds): lovelock; the lincoln highway; battle mountain; western archeological service; boomerang, rocket, minor; 93.1 The River (by Amy C Beal); afterthought (Polansky/Beal, 2 versions); magic square; end of the line another round of cohase rounds (16 rounds): el regreso del pajaro rojo; née Ascutney; reconnaissance; motherhood; two state solution; a real racket!; ;there!; viam vulpes; terra incognita ה ;climatology; alimentation; phenomenology; ándale; resolution CATs in the CoHase; What the &%$!??? Ucross Rounds (with Amy Beal) (22 rounds): drive, she said (bea); lament noir; a (mostly) peaceable kingdom; interruption (barn dance) (beal); travel advisory (for tracey kikut); @swim 3 creeks; greetings and (canine) salutations; culinary dilemma; whereabouts; pyrotechnics; wyovision; Logan Airport 5 a.m (beal); survey; ars nova; sheep may safely graze?!#*!; manifest (V.I.P version); visitation; doggerel; to'ks^aakhe' & Philámayaye; the ballad of Lucia Dlugoszewski (beal); boseman/baritone uke; boise/Judah a 5-measure valentine’s rag for amy. Piano VEDITZ, for percussionist/ASL interpreter (with film) (for Christopher Clarino) (premiered, Chris Clarino, UC San Diego, Experimental Theater, 1/16/19)

2017 v(t)pm, solo piano

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snakey snake, haegum and live computer. Premiered Soo-yeon Lyuh, haegum; LP, computer (and guitar obligato). UC Santa Cruz Pacific Rim Festival, Santa Cruz, CA, 10/17/17 eemee) (for the Early and) ימי / (Selected Rounds: vii’d’vi (birthday round for George Marsh Experimental Music Ensembles, UCSC) / trigger warning (for David Dunn’s birthday) / Lullaby for Sofia / Cohase Rounds (book of 29 rounds) sylvan bop, jazz tune (lead sheet) and piano solo version

2016

nagan) for Michael Parsons / 2G17 (for Paul Nauert) / así es / b[ / bestiary / bald top) נגן :Selected Rounds / clarification / a mode(l) of limited transposition / a lwk viiits! (birthday round for Daniel Goode) / quinceañera habanera / no corking fee! conjugation, guitar and piano viiivvi, for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello; commissioned by Ensemble IPSE, premiered 3/5/17, NYC 2015 canons and rounds (for Dither), for 4 – 6 electric guitars. Premiered by Dither; The Stone, NYC, 2/7/16 8 fermentations (on a sketch by Charles Dodge), two electric guitars. #4 premiered by Giacomo Fiore, LP, MonkSpace, Los Angeles, March, 2017; complete piece premiered by James Moore, Elliot Simpson, 11/28/18, Areté, Brooklyn, NY Sweet Betsy from Pike (Interlood), two electric guitars Selected Rounds: the old 100 (+5a) / Border Crossings / q.e.d (a birthday round) / epigrammatic epithalamion (wedding round for Linnea and Noah) / User’s Manual (for RAZORCAKE) / leviathan / Lullaby for Luca / den / scarcity 2014

v’y’aal) (and he ascended), for nine pitched instruments. For Steven Miller. Premiered, Bang on a Can) וְיַעַל Summer Music Festival, Mass MoCa, North Adams, MA, 7/16/16, Greg August, conductor Selected Rounds: viiity / long playing / three rounds for three thirds / echolalia / bassoons across nebraska! (a meander) / wrmw (v’im’ru) (and enjoin) for Bob Gilmore 2013 tritune. Three pieces for two electric guitars (played without pause). Commissioned by Kobe van Cauwenberghe and Matthias Koole holding patterns for george marsh. Drummer and any other instruments Paradox. Opera. Text: Patrick Graybill’s “Paradox.” Solo ASL signer (Monique Holt), “interpreter,” electric guitar (LP), clarinet (Daniel Goode), two percussion, video (made with Douglas Repetto). Commissioned by Real Time Opera; premiered (four performances) Transformer, Cleveland, Ohio, 2013. Video version available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdSfTv3PlaY. Five minutes long steinmehrhund. Solo piano. Commissioned by the Beethoven Festival 2013 Bagatelle Project, premiered, Jiwon Choi, Chicago, Illinois, 9/14/13 catchaiku. Guitar and Percussion, commissioned by Toon Callier and Jeroen Stevens. Premiered by them, and recorded (two versions) on fritzi und heidl, BandCamp CD, 2013. American Premiere, Kyle Bruckmann and Matt Ingalls, Center for New Music, San Francisco, 9/27/14 minmaj (duet) (from 3 translations for electric guitar). Premiered by LP and Giacomo Fiore, San Francisco, 3/13 Selected Rounds: 3 x 17 / 1/16/13 / µwyh Pwsh (Ha’sof ha’yom) / alacrity / aggadic midrash / prosperity (for mike winter) / shell game / alarum / miscommunication / call and response 2012 rive; quasi-paralude x (from 3 translations for electric guitar). Rive premiered by Giacomo Fiore, San Francisco, 3/1 (number piece), for 10 instruments, part of “Cage 100 Party Pieces Project” (Leipzig). Premiered Miller Theater, NYC, 10/17/13, Either/Or Ensemble

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Three Songs for Tom and Joe. 1. “Gentle Annie” 2. 8 Lines 3. “De lah de lah”. Voice and piano. Premiered Four Seasons Arts Series, (baritone), Joseph Kubera (piano), March 2, 2014, Oakland, California 8 Lines, version for voice and 8 melody instruments. She is Full of Patience. Nine instruments (flute, alto saxophone, violin, cello, harp, guitar, piano, percussion, electronics). Commissioned by besides, dedicated to and premiered by Jutta Troch and besides, Belgium, March, 2012. Official premiere at Darmstadt Festival, July, 2012 Selected Rounds: ! /illuminations / righteous doodette / primer / detritus haikus / census / reasonable expectations / tympanocryptis 2011 performance practice for doug perkins. Piece for Twitter 9 events (quartet) for christian, doug, robert and me. Piano/melodica, percussion, bass, guitar. Premiered at The Stone, , June, 2011 10 strings (9 events). Guitar and violin. Commissioned and premiered by James Moore and Andi Springer. Recorded on Gertrudes (Moore and Springer), New World Records CD, 2015 Three Pieces for Trombone and Tuba. Commissioned and premiered by Matthew Barbier Night Hunter. Score for animation by Stacey Steers. Premiered at the Denver Art Museum. Major first screenings at MOMA and Lincoln Center (NYC), and at film festivals including Telluride, Sundance, and Rotterdam Duchess Bridge. Guitar recording. On The $100 Guitar Project, Bridge Records (2013) Ensembles of Note, flute solo. (2 versions) Cinderella (duet version, added percussion part) Selected Rounds: viiii / the way down east / to do list / common things / five Ostrava rounds (halda; confession; sisterhood; clumpiness; 329) / Three Lowland Rounds / Sage Advice! / Music 206 / ornithology 2010 Perception. For three signers and piano Old Paint. Solo piano. Premiered by Rory Cowall, Pasadena, California, 2012 Silent demonstration. Any instruments 30 Rounds (MacDowell diary) (31 rounds, written at the MacDowell colony) 22 sounds. Percussion quartet String Quartet in 3 Movements (edited and engraved 2016) four doods (@ $6.25). I. monophony (two clarinets, or any two similar instruments), II. homophony (two tubas or any two bass instruments), III. polyphony (two accordions, or any two instruments that can play chords), IV. heterophony (two violins). Commissioned and premiered by Machine Project, Los Angeles, 2010 Simple song (agnosia). Piano and voice. Premiered by Yuji Takahashi, Mutsumi Hatano, Japan, 2011. hojas nuevas (seven canonic variations for piano) Selected Rounds: 4-part round for laura steenberge (2 voices, 2 basses, 1 person) / an accounting (for Sarah Lloyd) / rqwb/ hurry home / moving day / Antwerp / two slime mould rounds (texts by Sarah Lloyd) 2009 Hocket. Drum quartet. Premiered by the Rice University percussion ensemble (Tim Mehan, director). tooaytoods #17, a – f, for string quartet. ontslaan. 4 or 5 guitars. Commissioned and premiered by Toon Callier and Zwerm (with LP), Ghent, 2009. Selected Rounds: esb /See you Around / toon and jutta live in Antwerp (for voices, harp and guitar) / exuberance / skinks (text by Sarah Lloyd) / extra innings (a round in two parts and two speeds) / y o y o y o (for mike seeger) / !Δ / grunt, honk, whistle or quack (chirp 2) (text by Sarah Lloyd) / new york life / the antipodes (2

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gotham rounds) / hudson ecclesiastical view / one more day / broome street bar / hinterlands and accompaniment / new year’s day at joe’s (a catch). Pedagogy. For 6 voices, 6 guitars. 2008 Four Voice Canon #23b (freeHorn canon). 9 tubas and tape. For Robin Hayward. Recorded on The Theory of Impossible Melody (New World reissue). tetherball. Book 2, II. anti-war round (II). 2 Part round. Selected Rounds: what to do? Text by Sarah Lloyd. / biographical dictionary entry (for Michael Byron). / transcontinental warren. Round in six parts/bereavement / It's Difficult not to Love a Pelican. Text by Sarah Lloyd / Scarlett Tanager (for Amy Charlotte Benson) / divinorum / Kites in the meadow! / historical events (a cyclical round in 7 voices in surprise mixolydian) / another perspective on tofurkey (“dog’s breakfast”) / One Day in Toronto (an epithalamian) (text by )/leap second/ self-reflection (a 6 part pedagogy)/entreaty/Borland St. para-culinary report. !tearrimedis. Tuba, French horn and trombone (or any number of variable pitch instruments). Dedicated to Grace Paley. Premiered by Ensemble Kobayashi, Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, 2011 2 17 chords. Piano and optional other instruments Epitaph (Four Voice Canon #21) (tmfg). Stereo version. Released on The Theory of Impossible Melody (New World reissue) rbdmb (Numbers) for piano and invited speakers. (17 pieces).Commissioned and several piece premiered by Sarah Cahill, 2009. Entire set premiered by Rory Cowal, Pasadena, California, 2012 Four Voice Canon #23a (freeHorn canon) for Charles Dodge. Tape. Released on University of Illinois, Electronic Music Studios, 50 year Retrospective CD Four Voice Canon #22a. (rKzy for jim tenney). 6 trumpets Four Voice Canon #22b. (rKzy for jim tenney). 12 brass instruments pardalotes, eucalypts and lerps. Five rounds (or one large round) on texts by Sarah Lloyd 2007 Three Pieces for Two Pianos (with optional interloods). Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment. Premiered by Jospeh Kubera and Marilyn Nonken, Roulette, NYC, 2011 htood. Solo piano. Premiered by Amy Beal, Troy, NY, 2011 #[DoWhat?AllYes/No?(ok)Back]. ASL loan sign round for signers in 5 parts. (p)safety. Solo piano rounds: Four Pedagogical Rounds for Dan Rockmore/Don’t tidy up! (2). Text by Sarah Lloyd/ Emoroundicon/ Misdirection Christian Music. 2- and 4- part rounds. Limited color edition set of four cards, co-designed by Laura Gray. Premiered, NYC, 2009 2006 Dismission (pianotood) II. and Dismission (pianotood) II (stretched) Three Pieces for Bass and Psalterion. I. funquitood II. Dismission III. Doofunquitood. Dismission (pianotood). Piano. Premiered by Amy Beal (and ensemble), Troy, 2011 Fungimap. A round in four rounds (with underground chorale), on a text by Sarah Lloyd (et. al.) Epitaph (Four Voice Canon #21) (tmfg). Computer composed quad tape piece. Commissioned by Third Practice. Released on [re] (DVD), Everglade DVDs Ladies Auxiliary. Large ensemble. Commissioned and premiered by UC Santa Cruz New Music Ensemble, 2006 iiiisiv joan (tooaytoods #14). Solo piano. For Joan Pollock (premiered by her, Melbourne, Australia)

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almost a quintet (sounding), twice before gone, sadly giving up (8). Piano or multiple pianos. Premiered by Sarah Cahill, Oakland, California, 2008 days, weeks, months, years. Solo piano Selected rounds: yet another round on the subject of tofurkey/ Don’t tidy up! Text by Sarah Lloyd/Are Your Platypuses Healthy? 4-part round, with ground bass, on a text by Sarah Lloyd 2005 songs and toods. Five pieces for solo guitar (or the Lou Harrison Just Intonation National Steel Guitar). schneidertood; 85 chords (“The Historical Tuning Problem”); Sweet Betsy from Pike; Eskimo Lullaby; Dismission of Great I. Premiered by John Schneider (Eskimo Lullaby), and movement recorded for Cold Blue Records Anthology Two (2012). 85 Chords premiered by Giacomo Fiore, Los Angeles, 2012. Dismission… premiered by James Moore, NYC, 2011. Complete piece premiered by Elliot Simpson, 2014, and recorded by him on The Wayward Trail, Microfest CD, 2015 Selected rounds: Explication, a celebratory round in 4 parts/a birthday round for dan and his family (from my perspective) in the form of a reverse alphabetic telestich/Leave logs for frogs!. 3–part round, with ground bass, on a text by Sarah Lloyd to foster and encourage (Anna Study #4). Tape. Commissioned by the American Music Center, Siday Music on Hold Project, used as “call-waiting” for the AMC’s phone jargon. 12 cellos, flute, clarinet, trombone. Commissioned and premiered by the Flexible Orchestra, NYC, 2005 iiivxii (tooaytood #13). 12 cellos and winds. Commissioned and premiered by the Flexible Orchestra, NYC, 2005 untitled, collaborative electronic work with Ilya Monosov, released on his CD architectures on air and other works, Elevator Bath CDs 2004 freeHorn, for Kirsten Barrow. General software implementation, for real-time computer performance, of the ideas in my “Psaltery” set of pieces. Written in collaboration with Phil Burk in Java/Jsyn. Premiered by LP and David Dunn, Santa Fe. Guitar version recorded on iv, American Music for Guitar, Giacomo Fiore LP ldgty (Yitgadal) 1. ascending viewpoint (for bill colvig) 2. descending viewpoint (for lou harrison). 13 instruments. Commissioned and premiered by the New Century Chamber Players, Los Angeles TrioImprov.february software for live improvisation, new features added to improvisation software for Trio; TrioImprovSantaFe, for clarinet and live computer (new, greatly expanded version) NyTrt, solo cello Four Voice Canon #20, #20a. Solo voice or solo instrument. For Philip Corner tooaytoods #7-11 (piano) abetoods (tooaytood 12). Four pieces for solo violin. Premiered by Erik K.M. Clark, Los Angeles Lissatoods. Five pieces for solo trumpet Miwakatood. For Miwako Abe, solo violin, with small percussion (in)dust(try). el. guitar, computer, computer processing, text, sax. Realization of one of Herbert Brun’s Floating Hierarchies scores, premiered by LP, Chris Mann, and Taimur Sullivan, NYC Onceatoods. Miscellaneous piece/experiments using automatic composition algorithm in Java/JMSL. poojatood (tenor sax); sunday organ piece for church (organ, premiered by Randall Harlow and recorded by him on Organus Novus, Innova CD); tooguitartood (two classical guitars); noratood (accordion) Terrytood. Five mandolins; Glockentood. Two glockenspiel parts and voice, one performer; Dannytoods. Four pieces for solo Bb clarinet. For Daniel Goode; edtoods. Three progressive studies for trumpet quartet (2 trumpets, piccolo trumpet, flugehhorn). For Ed Carroll 2003 Nothing Like Dreaming. Film score for feature-length film by independent director Nora Jacobson. Many showings at festivals and theaters

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Ring Tones. A series (about 8) of experimental and unusual very short pieces of cell phone, using Phil Burk’s special purpose polyphonic ringtone software. 4 of them included as standard on the firmware for the high end-Treo 600 cellphone/PDA TrioImprov.java. Software for live improvisation, initially for use with my Trio (myself, Christian Wolff, Kui Dong), but used for other things as well. Written in Java (with JMSL and JSYN). Premiered by Trio, Princeton, New Jersey 2002 toovviivfor. Four electric guitars (new version of II-V-I). Premiered by Zwerm Ensemble, Belgium. On New World CD, The World’s Longest Melody twoaytood #5 (piano); twoaytood#6 (four guitars) Four Voice Canon #18 (Trio Canon for Christian Wolff). Trios. Recorded on Cold Blue (LP guitar; Nathan Davis percussion; Ha Yang Kim, cello), Four Voice Canon CD, 2002 Four Voice Canon #17 (Guitar Canon). Six electric guitars. Recorded (LP, guitars) on Cold Blue Four Voice Canon CD, 2002 Four Voice Canon #16a, 16b (Canon in one octave for Arthur Farwell). Tape. 16a recorded on Cold Blue Four Voice Canon CD, 2002. 16b recorded on Grain CD k-toods. Five pieces for two pianos or piano four hands. 1. Growth Spurt 2. Tween 3. Not in this house! 4. Baby Pictures 5. One thing at a time. Premiered by Tobin Chodos and Ittai Rosenbaum, Santa Cruz, California. Arrangement for 4 guitars (Tween), recorded by Zwerm on Underwater Princess Waltz, A Collection of One-Page Pieces, New World Records, 80748-2, 2013 2001 Four Voice Canon #15 (Shape Note Canon). Any instruments Four Voice Canon #14 (Kid Canon). Kids. Recorded on Cold Blue Four Voice Canon CD, 2002 Four Voice Canon #13 (DIY Canon). General “meta-canon” and instructions for making your own. Several other versions by other composers recorded on Cold Blue Four Voice Canon CD, 2002 Astraphony. Choir and recorded choir. Hundreds of short soundfiles based on the voices of members of the Astra Choir, to be used in performance or installation with live performers in any way. Commissioned and premiered by Astra Choir, Melbourne, Australia vfty. Multiple trumpets, or multiple winds tetherball, Book 1: 14a, b, 15, 16, 17a,b (Book 1 complete). Premiered by Non Sequitur tetherball Book 2: 1a, b, c, d (“frengelmusics”). Premiered by Non Sequitur 2000 tooaytoods: #1 (≤too), #2 (≤too←), #3 (2), #4 (viityviiiinii). Two-second works for solo piano. Tooaytoods #1- 11 premiered by Kentaro Noda, Osaka, Japan Three Fiddle Tune Transcriptions by Ruth Crawford Seeger. Two guitars. 1. “Callahan” 2. “Bonyparte’s Retreat” 3. “Glory in the Meetin’ House” Six Declarations. Clarinet and speaker, on texts by Virginia Levitt Snitow ivtoo. Several guitars (canon), electric or acoustic. Premiered by Claudio Calmens ivt. Solo piano or two pianos. For Sarah Cahill. Premiered by Cahill and Joe Kubera, Mills College, Oakland, CA, 11/18/2002 Two Shaker Songs. "I'll Come into the Valley" (on a Shaker melody and a counter-melody by Mary Ann Haagen), for voices and instruments; "Now My Dear Companions", for voices, flute/picc., cl., trombone, elec. guitar, percussion. Premiered by the Downtown Ensemble, NYC. Killing Time. Live interactive computer piece in Java/Jsyn. Premiered Cal Arts, 2001 (LP and Douglas Repetto, electronics). 1999 Three New Hampshire Songs. 1. litany (RSA 161:2, V) 2. doggerel (Four Voice Canon #12) 3. proposition (3 verbs and a logical operator). Chorus. Premiered by York Vocal Index, William Brooks, director, York, England. Doggerel recorded on Four Voice Canons CD.

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Essays for String Quartet, 1-3. 1. “Don’t You Hear the Lambs A’ Crying?”, 2. v, 3. ldgty (Yitgadal) for Jim Horton. 2, 3 premiered, Spoleto Festival, June, 1999. 3 Shaker Songs. Electric guitar (fretless and fretted) and voice (includes “Compassion”). Premiered (LP, guitar), Moorhead State University, March, 1999. Several other performances. 1998 cinderella. Solo flute. Fourth in the all things... series. For Margaret Lancaster. Can be played as a duet with all things.... Premiered, Dartmouth College, April, 1999. tetherball (1-13). 6 percussionists or six musicians. XI is also Four Voice Canon #11. Many other performances. two minute warning. Solo trumpet. Third in the all things... series. For Ed Carroll. Approaching the azimuth... Solo clarinet. Second in the all things... series. For Matt Ingalls. Premiered by Ingalls, Center for New Music, San Francisco, 5/27/14 all things, beings, equal. Solo saxophone (any saxophone). Computer composed work using interpolated statistical distributions. Premiered by Written for Taimur Sullivan and premiered by him, NYC, 1998 3 Cello Tunes. Solo cello (or solo string instrument), for Anton Lukoszevieze. I. “Hop Up and Jump Up,” II. Twickenham Stomp, III. ldgty (Yitgadal) (for Jim Horton) Ensembles of Note. Any ensemble. For Gamelan Son of Lion, premiered by them, 12/31/98. Recorded by Zwerm on The World’s Longest Melody CD Piker. Five movements for solo piccolo (or any melody instrument in appropriate transposition). You’re No Piker, You’re a Piker, Piker, I Know You!, Daughter of Piker. Written for Margaret Lancaster, and premiered by her at the Bonk Festival, 1998. Many other performances 1997 Choir/Empi’s Solo, co-composed with Marie Pauline Esquerra, voice and tape. Premiered, Open Systems Festival, Essen, Germany. Recorded on Change CD, Artifact, 2002 Neighborhoods of Note. 2 or 3 Suzuki pianists II-V-I. Two electric guitars; or for guitar solo. Premiered by LP and Nick Didkovsky, La Mama Galleria, New York City, August, 1997. Solo version premiered and recorded by Claudio Calmens, Buenos Aires, 1998 Frog Peak Collaboration Pieces. 14 1 minute tape works based on a text/reading by Chris Mann. Most of these on Frog Peak Colalborations CD. Chris Choir Four Boys Mannin' #10 Time Studies (1-7) (Tyler "Speedboy" Kingdom) 1. Chris Trio 2. Chris Quartet 3. Chris Sextet 4. Chris Crowd 5. Chris Solo 6. Chris Quartet 2 7. Chris Mob Chris Morphs 1. Chris Morph #1 2. Chris Morph #2 3. Chris Morph #3 4. Chris Morph #4 5. Chris Morph #5 1996 Parting Hands. Two percussionists. Commissioned by Essential Music. Premiere, May 15, 1996, New York City Anna’s Music Box. Children’s MIDI software piece. Shareware on worldwide web

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17 Behaviors. Generalized MIDI input processor software. Premiered in collaboration with Richard Lerman, Phoenix, (3/96) and in revised (releasable) form with Rainer Linz and Machine for Making Sense, Melbourne, Australia, October, 1996 1995 34 Chords, Christian Wolff in Hanover and Royalton. December. Solo electric guitar. Many performances by me and other guitarists. Recorded (LP) on The World’s Longest Melody CD Study: baa baa birthday have you any star. August. Tape. Computer-synthesized work using Soundhack spectral mutations. On Computer Music Journal 20th Anniversary Issue CD. One of the Three Anna Studies. Also released on Artifact CD, Change for jim, ben and lou. (Three Pieces for guitar, harp and percussion) I. Preamble ≈alp [wr (Rue Plats) (Resting Place) III. The World’s Longest Melody (Trio): “The Ever–Widening Halfstep.” Commissioned by John Schneider and the Japan-America Interlink Festival. Second movement premiered in Japan, Fall 1995. Full piece premiered by Toon Callier, Jutta Troch, and Jeroen Stevens, Belgium, 2009. Recorded by Callier, Troch and Stevens on The World’s Longest Melody CD Always cut off the baseline. Feb.-March. Trumpet, live interactive computer, drum machine, and various devices. Collaboration with trumpeter Ed Carroll. Written in HMSL. Premiered by LP and Ed Carroll, Dartmouth College, March, 1995 1994 Four Voice Canon #9a (anna canon) (6:7:8:9). November. Tape. HMSL/Csound/Soundhack work. Premiered Dartmouth College, November, 1994. Other three versions of piece are: b: 4:5:6:7; c: 8:9:10:11, and d: ø. One of the Three Anna Studies. Recorded on Change and Four Voice Canon CDs 51 Harmonies (“The sun sets and rises without saturation of the senses, rises and sets without redemption of the soul”). Percussion trio, electric guitar (or other melody and chordal instrument), live computer electronics (optional). HMSL-composed score. Commissioned by the WDR Köln for Le Circle Percussion Trio (Paris), premiered by them (LP, electric guitar) at the MusikTriennale Köln, June 1994, “Musik + Computer” Series David’s Mensuration Over Seattle. Up to 16 voices and accompaniment, written for David Mahler’s 50th birthday The Casten Variation. (1993-4). Piano, or piano and ensemble, HMSL-composed score. Premiered Mills College, April, 1994 (piano version). Recorded on Change CD 1993 No Replacement (85 verses for Kenneth Gaburo). Computer-generated poem. Published in Perspectives of New Music, 33:1&2. 1995 The World’s Longest Melody Piano Studies #1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16. Tape pieces of live improvisations using TWLM software. On Hallways CD (Frog Peak Music) Study: Anna, the long and the short of it. Tape. Computer-synthesized work based on my daughter Anna’s cries. On Ariel/What’s Next CD. One of the Three Anna Studies. Released on Non Sequitur CD, and re- released on Change The World’s Longest Melody (ensemble). 1992-3. Electric guitar, bass and drums, soloists. Premiered Mobius, Boston, Jan. 1993, Polansky/Didkovsky Ensemble. Recorded by Zwerm on The World’s Longest Melody CD

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1992 Four Voice Canon #8 (“Nerve Canon”). Co-composed with Ray Guillette. Computer-generated work using HMSL, Dr. Nerve public domain samples, and various studio devices. On Cuneiform CD, Transforms. Re-released on Four Voice Canon CD Roads to Chimacum. Mandolin quartet or string quartet. Computer-composed work. 17 variations on my arrangement of a fiddle tune by Patricia Spaeth. Uses HMSL mutation software. Premiered May, 1993, Modern Mandolin Quartet; and string quartet version, March, 1994, Zurich The World’s Longest Melody. Portable MIDI version, for computer. Computer performance piece distributed as source code or executable image (by Frog Peak Music), with user manual. Source code version includes documentation, for performers/users to alter and extend piece. Solo extended version premiered Here Gallery, NYC, 1995. Software description published in Array (International Computer Music Association). Greatly revised, Fall, 1995. Shareware on web Two Children’s Songs. Tuba and trombone, two tubas, two bassoons, or any two bass wind instruments. Computer-composed work. Uses HMSL mutation software. Premiered May, 1992, Dartmouth 1991 3 Improvisations for guitars and software delay. Performed with Nick Didkovsky using 4-channel custom delay software written in HMSL. Premiered LP and Didkovsky, December, 1991, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC 51 Melodies (Pride holds the multitudes in a continual, habitual process of readornment). Computer-composed work for two electric guitars and optional rhythm section, or any two melody instruments. Uses HMSL mutation software. Premiered, December, 1991, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC. Released on Change CD There is more headroom, but one's feet are forced into slippers of steel. With Nick Didkovsky. Title from a text by Melody Sumner. Two guitars and two live interactive computer systems, electronics. Premiered (LP and ND), Dartmouth College InterAmerican Music Festival, May, 1991. On The Time Is Now CD, Burning Books/Frog Peak 1990 Three Studies (for performers and live computer): 1. Rhythm, 2. Melody, 3. Harmony. Premiered by the Downtown Ensemble, NYC, May, 1990. Also performed at Telluride Composer-to-Composer and Darmstadt Festival (July,1990). Four Voice Canon #7. For Gamelan Son of Lion. Premiered NYC, May, 1990. Released on Four Voice Canon CD. Duet. Any number of melodic instruments and live interactive computer; premiered by LP and Nick Didkovsky, guitars, NYC, April, 1990. Revised version performed by the Downtown Ensemble, NYC, May, 1990. Horn. French horn and live computer in harmonic series tuning (algorithmic version of Psaltery); premiered by Chris Bobrowski, Mills College CCM concert, March, 1990. Revised score, 1992, revised computer part (HMSL/CSound), 1993-4. Recorded on CD, Simple Harmonic Motion. Published in Xenharmonikon. Bedhaya Sadra/Bedhaya Guthrie. 1989; 1990. Voices, melody instruments, kemanak and gamelan accompaniment; computer-composed work based on tunes by Woody Guthrie and I Wayan Sadra. Uses HMSL mutation software. Commissioned and premiered by ASTRA Choir (John McCaughey, conducting), Melbourne, August, 1989. Revised version premiered NYC, Gamelan Son of Lion, May, 1990. Revised score, 1992. Solo clarinet version, premiered by Daniel Goode, August, 1992, Knitting Factory, NYC. Score published in Perspectives of New Music, 1995. Solo version released on Change CD.

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1989 Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations). 1988-9. Solo piano (about an hour and one-half long), set of variations on Ruth Crawford's harmonic setting of an American folksong. Premiered March, 1994, Zürich, Switzerland by Martin Christ, Tomas Bachli, and Urs Egli. Recorded by Martin Christ, New World Records, 2001. Suite from Lonesome Road, selected variations, compiled by Michael Arnowitt, 1996. A second suite compiled by Joseph Kubera, 1998. Simple Actions/Rules of Compossibility. Collaboration with Chris Mann for live interactive computer and voice; version of earlier piece, Simple Actions, premiered in Melbourne, August, 1989; version with Paul Dutton performed in Toronto, 1990. Recorded on Artifact CD, The Theory of Impossible Melody. 1988 17 Simple Melodies of the Same Length (for Dan Goode). 1987-8. Clarinet (or any melody instrument) and live interactive intelligent computer. Written in HMSL (portable live computer music piece). Premiered in NYC by Dan Goode, in Seattle by William Smith, in San Francisco by George Brooks, in Toronto by John Oswald, in Europe by Ann LaBerge; on cassette from Frog Peak Music. 1987 Cocks crow, dogs bark, this all men know. But even the wisest cannot tell why cocks crow, dogs bark, when they do. Three performers, computers and stuff (live electronic work written in HMSL for Amiga and HMSL controlled digital signal processor). Premiered Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, May, 1987, revised October, 1987; revised April, 1988 in collaboration with Melody Sumner and John Bischoff. On The Time Is Now CD, Burning Books/Frog Peak. The Time is Now. Text by Melody Sumner. Voice, flute, clarinet, viola, guitar, and bass. Premiered by ISKRA, Berkeley, 1987. 1986 Study for Milwaukee Blues. Three tap dancers (or three percussionists). Premiered NYC, March, 1987. Percussion version premiered St. Louis, 1988. Buy Some for Spare Parts. Collaboration with Phil Burk. Live computer music installation consisting of Simple Actions and Draw Piece, in which the audience creates the music through an HMSL graphic interface; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November. Simple Actions. Computer installation and performance piece written in HMSL, consisting of a large number of "simply explainable" musical events which, through sharing simple data, interact in complex ways; part of above Buy Some for Spare Parts; Simple Actions 2, major revision of piece written in HMSL 3.12, November, 1987; premiered Mills College CCM, December, 1987. Distance Music. Set of pieces for any number of performer/programmers using live microcomputer systems. Several have been performed, including Distance Music I ("The Metric System") (for Charles Ames), Distance Music IV ("Drawing Unnecessary Conclusions”),"Distance Music V ("The Roots of Learning") (for John Bischoff, Tim Perkis and Jim Horton), and Distance Music VI ("The World's Longest Melody") (for David Feldman). Published in Perspectives of New Music. Al Het (for the people of Nicaragua). Soprano voice (Javanese style), and solo percussionist (slendro génder and pelog barang gambang, tumbuk 6); for Jody Diamond and Gino Forlin. Recorded on Leonardo Music Journal CD. Four Voice Canon #6. Computer ("homebrew") digital sampling algorithms, realized on HMSL-machine, CCM, 1986. Sound sources: rebab (Jody Diamond), baritone sax (Anthony Braxton), Kurzweil 250 sine wave preset, Mills College frog pond; recorded on Artifact CD, The Theory of Impossible Melody. Re- released on Four Voice Canon CD. tyvarb (B'rey'sheet) (In the Beginning) (Cantillation Study #1). Voice and voice-controlled live computer. Premiered March, l986 Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College; Jody Diamond, voice; revised version, premiered ICMC, Illinois, 1987; on Artifact CD The Theory of Impossible Melody, and JIN Compilation #2 (Numbers Racket). Toyoji Patch III and Toyoji Patch II. Flute-controlled computer and flute (Ann LaBerge, flute), and for computer only.

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Gottlieb Variations (The Year of Jubalo) (Guitar Trio #2). 1985-6. 'Cello, guitar, and harp. twdlwt hla (E'leh Tol'd'ot) (these are the ) (Cantillation Study #3). 1985–6. For William Winant. Four marimbas or four marimbas and computer commentary. Premiered March, 1994, Zurich, Switzerland. (New edition and engraving: 2017) 1985 Conversation. Electronic installation, with John Levin and Richard Povall, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Buka Bucha. Live performance collaboration with Ron Kuivila, computer-generated sounds, digitally processed guitar, live computer sounds. Hensley Variations (Guitar Trio #1). Flute, viola, guitar. Recorded on Opus One Records LP. Premiered by ISKRA, San Francisco. 1984 Four Voice Canon #5. Four percussionists. Recorded and premiered by William Winant, NYC. Computer- composed score. Recorded on Artifact CD, The Theory of Impossible Melody. Live premiere (four percussionists), Essential Music, NYC, 1995. Re-released on Four Voice Canon CD. Psalm 138 and Psalm 131. Soprano, flute/piccolo, trombone, mandola, gendér. Music for my own wedding; January, 1985. Score revised and engraved, 2015. Milwaukee Blues. Two tap dancers and five saxophones (3 tenors, 2 altos, first tenor also sings). For Anita Feldman; arrangement of Charlie Poole song. Premiered NYC, March, 1987. lvmlw (V'Leem'Shol) (...and to rule...) (Cantillation Study #2). Five flutes (with optional alto flute doubling "trope"). Second set of 17 verses of Torah, part of set of Cantillation Studies. For Ann LaBerge and , composed using FORTH/HMSL compositional algorithms. Premiered by Ann LaBerge, Center for 21st Century Music Concert, Mills College, March, 1985; revised version, 1987, in complex just intonation. Recorded by Anne La Berge on Centaur CDCM CD, The Virtuoso in the Computer Age: II. Little Maggie. Solo violin, 45-minute long set of variations on fiddle tune.

1983 Four Bass Studies. Solo contrabass. Re-orchestration of Violin Studies, for dance by Ann Rodiger. Premiered by Joe Tamosaidas, NY. Published, Xenharmonikon X. Sascha's Song (for the peoples of Chile). Ensemble version: tape and seven instruments (trpt., trb., fr. hrn., vln., cl., bass). Written for Chile: Ten Years After Concert, San Diego, commissioned and conducted by Vincent Plush. Resting Place/Ann's Solo Boogie. Tape work based on Yiddish song “Mayn Rue Platz,” for dance by Ann Rodiger; realized at CCM. Here to Stay. Solo violin and pitch-sensing microprocessor. For Mary Oliver and Mark Trayle, published in Active Listener. Three Rimbaud Settings. 1979-83. Soprano and percussionist. For , Charles Ives, and Victor Jara, premiered Toronto. Published in Ear Magazine. Three Monk Tunes. 1982-3. Tap dancer and percussionist. Written for Anita Feldman (movements dedicated to David Rosenboom, Ann Rodiger, Jody Diamond). Premiered by Anita Feldman, Cal Arts Music Festival, 1983. Many performances around the and in Japan. A Pregnant Pause (sketch), for Jacqueline Humbert and David Rosenboom. Piano and voice. Premiered 2002, NYC. Released on this duo’s Lovely Music CD, 2003. 1981 Four Violin Studies (what to do when the night comes for Jim Tenney. Solo violin. Published in Perspectives of New Music.

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V/I (Born To Boogie). Tape work for organ, four violins, mandolins, mandolas, mandocelli. Commissioned by dancer Nancy Bryant and choreographer Barbara Roesch. Performed in San Francisco by Nancy Bryant. Piano Study #1 for Carl Ruggles. 1976-81. Solo piano. 1980 Another You (17 variations for solo harp in just intonation). 1979-80. Solo harp, premiered by Alyssa Hess, NYC. Recorded on Artifact CD, Simple Harmonic Motion. Unhappy Set of Coincidences for Richard Myron. Bass and guitar, bass and flute, solo piano, or any high and low instruments or ensembles. Based on “When Sunny Gets Blue.” Many performances by New Kanon New Music Ensemble, and by Richard Myron and LP. Orchestra version arranged by Gary Schmidt. Will You Miss Me. Ensemble version for flute, bass, Harrison-Colvig "transfer harp," and untrained male voice. Based on Carter Family song. Premiered on tour by NKNME. Published in Xenharmonikon. Riddled and Ragged. Ensemble version of piano rag, co-arranged with Gary Schmidt; flute, bass, piano, and mandolin. Premiered by NKNME. 1979 Horse Turds and Roses. 1979. Flute and piano Psaltery. For Lou Harrison. Tape. Over 100 tracks of specially tuned Appalachian hand-held bowed psaltery with minor electronic modification, realized at University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios. Recorded on Artifact CD, The Theory of Impossible Melody Glass. 51 tuned water glasses, 11 players, commissioned by The Glass Orchestra (version of Psaltery). Realized, 2017–18, by Hunter Coblentz 1978 Flutes. For Ann LaBerge. Flute choir: piccolos, flutes, alto flutes, bass flutes (or euphonium) (version of Psaltery) Canon for Flute. (revised edition, 1990). For Anne LaBerge. For one live flute and up to eight pre-recorded flutes. In just intonation (version of Psaltery). Premiered by Ann LaBerge, Illinois, 1978. Published in 1/1, The Journal of the Just Intonation Network, 1990, 6(2) 'Cello. Solo cello and up to eight tracks recorded cello, in just intonation (version of Psaltery) Cata/Tonic. Solo viola (version of Psaltery) Prayer without Words. Male and female voice, cello. For Debra Zae Munn Four Children's Songs. Verbal/musical/ exercises for young kids. Published in Frog Peak Anthology. Adult premiere by the Astra Choir, Melbourne, Australia, 9/96, Joan Pollock, director [mv (Shema): Fuging Tune in G. Flute, alto flute, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, percussion (and harmonica). Dedicated to my father, Arnold Joseph Polansky. Published Soundings 11. Premiered, 1980, at Mills College, conductor David Rosenboom Five Piano Haiku. Solo piano, on Biblical "haiku." Premiered by Gary Schmidt and Jan Cameron, Illinois, 1978. Subject of extended variations by Gary Schmidt Two Can Float as Cheap as One. Solo piano. For Mark Haag and Ann Rodiger Always Move Towards the Hoop and Go Up Strong. Solo tuba. For Paul Lucas. Revised, new edition, 1991 Departure. SATB, on poem by Rimbaud "....getting rid of the glue..." Solo classical guitar, for Jon Sidall, premiered by New Music Co-Op, J. Sidall, Toronto Four Voice Canon #4. For 1-4 marimbas. For William Winant, recorded and performed by Winant and also frequently used in a dance by Ann Rodiger; on Artifact CD The Theory of Impossible Melody. Re-released on Four Voice Canon CD

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Movement for Andréa Smith (My Funny Valentine for Just String Quartet). Two violins and two violas, scordatura (in just intonation), extended use of natural harmonics. Recorded by John Casten for Tellus Cassette Magazine; published in Xenharmonikon 7/8. Recorded on Artifact CD, Simple Harmonic Motion Quartet in F for Paula Ravitz. Clarinet in A, trombone, viola, piano. Premiered by ARRAY, Toronto Riddled and Ragged. Piano rag for Ron Riddle Will You Miss Me. Solo male voice (untrained) and Harrison-Colvig "transfer" harp, setting of Sarah Carter song, in 18-tone, 13-limit just intonation, premiered (LP), Illinois Seventeen Parables of Love. Spoken voice, electronics and optional piano, performed at A-Space (Toronto) with Jean Moncrieff and others, and in Oakland with Molly Holm; short story published in MusicWorks Gauss Music/Dance of the Tombstone. For Jean Moncrieff. Dancer and homemade electronics, score consists of "constructed" regular heptadecagon and homebrew circuitry, several performances in Toronto, including A-Space 1977 Four Voice Canon #3. Computer-composed and synthesized tape work realized at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Labs. Recorded on Mills College Centennial Album and Artifact CD, The Theory of Impossible Melody. Re-released on Four Voice Canon CD Stochastic Studies #1; #2; #3. Computer-composed and synthesized tape work realized at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Labs Sascha's Song (for the peoples of Chile). Quadraphonic or stereo tape work, realized at UCSC Piano Study #2 (March in D for Melissa). Solo piano. Premiered in Santa Cruz Piano Study #4 (Et Morphogenese). Any number of pianos or unspecified instrumental ensemble. Version of “four voice canon.” Premiered in Santa Cruz Piano Study #5 (for JPR). Just Fender Rhodes and drone. Performed in New York City and California. Published Xenharmonikon #7, and revised version published in 1/1. Premiered in Santa Cruz. Released on Change CD 17 for the 36 (A Hymn). Ocarina, soprano sax, flute, female speaker, based on text by Gershom Scholem. Published in Generation magazine

1976 Movement in E Major for . Violin, piano. Premiered in Santa Cruz (1976) and performed (1990) by Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio. Recorded by Miwako Abe on New World CD Silence Study #4 for Joe Pinzarrone. Four actors and violist. Premiered Santa Cruz, and Maple Sugar, Toronto Hoy Comienza Una Nueva Etapa. For Sal Martirano and Dr. Salvador Allende, quadraphonic or stereo tape work based on first sentence of Che Guevara's Bolivian diaries. Permutations and Banshee. With Larry Tyrell. Improvisational structure for Interdata Model 3 minicomputer, Moog, homemade circuitry, live mix, etc. 1975 Movement for Lou Harrison (for just bass quartet). 1975; 1978. Four contrabasses tuned in just intonation, natural harmonics. Premiered in Illinois, 1978. Revised, 1988, for publication in Xenharmonikon XII. Recorded on Artifact CD, Simple Harmonic Motion Four Voice Canon #2. Tape work for specially built and programmed Interdata Model-3 based hybrid system Silence Study #3. Solo cello with three tuned tom-toms, premiered Santa Cruz Dialogue 37 1/2.” Two actors

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COLLABORATIONS, ARRANGEMENTS, JAZZ WORKS, OTHERS Collaborations Try it Again, song (waltz) for David Mahler and Julie Hanify, 2004 I'll Come Into the Valley. For voices and gamelan, collaboration with Jody Diamond. Composed in memory of Bill Colvig as a gift for Lou Harrison 17 Glass Breaks, installation work for artist Jin Soo Kim, Jaffe-Freide Gallery, Dartmouth College, 1998 (by Tyler “Speedboy” Kingdom and irving bellmead) Eine Kleine Gamelan Computer Music; live interactive computer implementation, in HMSL, of Daniel Goode’s original work. Software written as part of P.A.S.S Collaborative Residency with Goode, NYC, 1995. Shareware on worldwide web. Two different arrangements done in 2010 of major re-recording project The Birth of Peace, collaboration with Chris Mann, Alistair Riddle, Simon Veitch and others, 7/89. Live interactive computer piece with live goldfish controlled HMSL system, text, and source materials including the music of Nietzche, Wittengstein, and Levi-Strauss. Premiered at the Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Australia, co-sponsored by Goethe Institute. Cassette/book documentation from NMA Australia Delicate Computations (1986), computer music work written by Philip Corner; wrote software and realized piece on HMSL; published in Perspectives of New Music Dear.John (1986), composition by for West German Radio John Cage Birthday celebration: wrote all computer software to generate work (in HMSL). Rewritten in MAX/MSP by me and Maskaki Kubo, 2003, and put on web Piano Tuning for Jon Hassel (1977), theoretical tuning for trumpeter, later used on Lovely Music album Vernal Equinox Arrangements "All at Home," three part vocal arrangement of the Shaker grace tune. (1999) Howard Skempton piano pieces arrangements: June ‘77 (guitar, horn, viola), Trace (violin, flute, oboe), Chorale (2 violins, flute, oboe, horn, piano, percussion), Tender Melody (oboe, 2 violins, viola), Two Highland Dances (clarinet, guitar), Slow Waltz (viola, guitar), Song 2 (guitar), Postlude (flute, oboe, voice, violin, viola, horn, guitar) “Compassion,” arrangement of Shaker Hymn for solo electric guitar, with voice. Dedicated to Chuck Wayne. Premiered, La Mama Galleria, New York City, August, 1997 "Sacco, Vanzetti," arrangement of Ruth Crawford political song for voice, mandolin, mandola, mandocello, and guitar; published, New Music for Plucked Strings Milk and Honey, (1982), mandolin quartet arrangement of James Tenney piano rag, for the Berkeley Mandolin Ensemble; published, New Music for Plucked Strings R.O.B. (1983), for two electric guitars, mandolin, two pianos, bass clarinet, percussion, two voices, "arrangement" of Chuck Berry tune, performed by Mills Contemporary Music Ensemble Sweet Sue (1986), arrangement for guitar and baritone sax, LP and Anthony Braxton, premiered 3/86 Sweet Sue (1980-2), guitar and bass (w/untrained male voice), "extended" arrangement of jazz tune, performed N.Y.C. and California by LP and Richard Myron. Also arrangement for tenor sax, bass clarinet, guitar, trio arrangement of above, performed at Roulette with David Pate and David MacDowell

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Selected Jazz pieces, songs, works in other styles, pedagogical, children’s music, etc. Sylvan Bop, swing tune, with piano arrangement (10/17) piensive, lullaby for Toon Callier, Jutta Toch, and their daughter Pien (4/2/14) City Hall Slow Dance, guitar and flute, wedding present for Giacomo and Paola (1/9/14) [thirteen] [n’frt]. Solo cello. bat mitzvah present for bekah schweitzer. (6/4/04) Constancy; Persistence. Two short piano pieces (2006) (p)safety; first waltz; park, waltz, (madison), vigil. 3 short piano pieces, 2007–9 poojatood, short computer generated score for solo tenor sax, written as class demonstration, 11/2004 Try It Again. Song for David Mahler and Julie Hanify Harry Potter Musical, written for Runnemede Elementary School Saskia’s Piano Doodle, solo piano, children’s piece Three Northwest Fiddle Tunes; I. Pretzels and Ice Cream (Reel), II. Ballard Bitter in Milk Cartons (Can't Be Flat) (Strathspey), III. On The Warning Track (Hornpipe) (1987-88), for David Mahler Beat me Mikey, 5 to the bar. Beginning piano piece for my nephew, 1993. Premiered, May, 1996, Cameron Wylie, Young Musicians Recital Series, Hanover, NH American Music for Fretted Strings, concert of American "traditional" musics arranged for guitars of all types, ukeleles, and mandolin family instruments, all solo, including jazz, country, fiddle tunes, rags, marches, and original works Little Maggie (1980), for two mandolins, structured improvisational version of solo violin work, performed N.Y.C. with Frank Pergolezzi, California with Paul Binkley (and LP) Four Easy American Tunes, (1980), flute and guitar, rag, march, blues, fiddle tune; simple arrangements of original compositions Steppin' Out (1978), for male and female dancers/musicians, for Mark Haag and Ann Rodiger, stage illusion Rebecca (1979-82), for large jazz ensemble (bass, perc., kb., two saxes, bass, male vocals), 30–40 minute work with accompanying narrative premiered in N.Y.C. (Roulette) by LP with David Pate, David Weinstein, Richard Schwarz, Richard Myron and others P.M. (1978) and Ralph (1975) jazz tunes David's Lamentation Over Seattle. 16 voices. 50th birthday present for David Mahler Chief Dave's Major Mojo; Situation Normal All Funked Up; And on the Seventh Day Take Five; Bossa Nostra; Ja- Da Jive; Brooklyn Nights, Brooklyn Lights, (1980) jazz-funk tunes written for NYC saxophonist Dave MacDowell, and subsequently arranged by LP and performed and recorded by MacDowell's band Arrangement of David Mahler's Christmas Time of Year, for recording, for guitars, slide guitar, mandolin, sax, and other instruments; also participated in the recording arrangment of his Elvis is Watching You 11 extended instrumental/vocal arrangements for "The Toptones," (1979-80), NYC based New Wave/R&B band. Performed many times in clubs in and around N.Y.C.

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HAIGAS (selected) The haigas are each one-page visual/musical pieces for a specific artist and/or friend, some meant to be performed, some not. (This is a selected list of many such works.) Haiga: Duet (≈gb) for Ellen and Dan; 2003 Haiga for douglas and Amy (hanging around in the house, just taking up space), 2003 Haiga: Round in the sharp Lydian (for Mary Ann Haagen and Charles DePuy), 2001 Haiga: Hanging around in the house, just taking up space (for douglas repetto and Amy Charlotte Benson), 2003 Haiga: A little farfetched and hard to believe (a complete surrogate biography of Larry Wendt), for the cover of special issue of furnitures, #10, 1993 Haiga: A Meditation on the 13 possible primitive ternary forms for I Wayan Sadra and Haiga: A Meditation on the 14 impossible primitive ternary forms for I Wayan Sadra. 1988 Haiga for John Bischoff and Evangel King: The World's Longest Melody (excerpt). 1986 Lou and Bill Sail for the East for Lou Harrrson and Bill Colvig. 1983 Three Balungan for Jody Diamond. 1983 Always look for the outlet pass... for Jody Diamond. 1982. Haiga for Billy and Jean (Three Mountain Tunes) for percussion and voice. 1981 Hitting the Open Man for David Pate, solo tenor sax. 1981 A Short Ballad with No Changes for Chuck Wayne. 1980 A Small Note for Amy for Amy Rubin. 1982 Eliezer's Revenge for Malcolm Goldstein. 1980 Shir Ha'shabat for Steve and Beryl Reich. 1980 You Can Count on Me Phil for Phil Corner, for 17 voices. 1980 In Review: Phil Corner. 1979 Hanging in There for Topper Lilien. 1979 Experiencing Uncertainty I for Alyssa Hess. 1979 Experiencing Uncertainty II for Alyssa Hess. 1979 Haiku for Zella for Zella Wolofsky. 1979 A Meditation on the Unsuccessful Pursuit of Loneliness for Barrie Karp. 1980 MacDowellmusic for Dave MacDowell. 1979 A Short Piece and a Haiga for Bill Hellermann. 1980 Letter for Susan Mackenzie. 1978 Lines for M. Manion. 1978

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